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Regency Centers’ goal with the Shops at Highland Village in Highland Village, Texas, was to bring a true social and commercial center for a town that had grown so quickly that it did not have one. However, the design team at O’Brien & Associates had neither the budget nor the inclination to produce another 1880’s “photo real” downtown clone that has become so popular in town centers around the country.

In recent months, a slew of retailers and retail real estate developers have made aggressive moves to crack the Canada retail market. With a healthy economy, robust consumer spending and a market that’s under-retailed—at least in comparison with the U.S.—the country has proved to be an alluring draw for retailers and developers looking for ways to drive growth.

Schnuck Markets Inc. wanted a Schnucks flagship store that would set a benchmark for the family-owned regional chain and symbolize the company’s consumer-driven, forward-thinking direction. In particular, Schnucks has implemented an education initiative for their teammates, culminating in their first Cooking School at the Des Peres location.

In 2007, Glimcher began to plan a $52.8 million, 155,000-square-foot outdoor lifestyle redevelopment at the already successful Polaris Fashion Place in Columbus, Ohio. It had three goals. Glimcher wanted to accommodate several tenants that had expressed a desire to come to the Columbus market. It wished to compress the construction timeline and its associated costs and to minimize the disruption to existing tenants. And the firm had the desire to create a sense of place—a destination that would be attractive to both retailers and shoppers.

Plymouth Meeting Mall was originally conceived in 1966 by architect Victor Gruen to be the center of a larger mixed-use development, and yet in time it had instead devolved into being ‘just another mall’. CREATE Architecture Planning & Design was charged with realizing the vision that the property could be a place where work, leisure and necessity could intertwine and thrive.

The Pinnacle at Craft Farms is the primary retail component of a 105-acre mixed-use development in Gulf Shores, Ala. It includes a 170,000-square-foot lifestyle center, a movie theater, and a Target located along the main artery into the masterplanned community. Originally developed by Colonial Properties Trust, it has since been purchased by Langley Properties and renamed “Pelican Place.”